Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

• "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

• "The only real valuable thing is intuition."

• "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself"

• "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."

• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

• "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

• "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

• "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."

• "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

• "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

• "He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

• "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

• "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."